TELEVISION AND CIVIL RIGHTS; Medium Demonstrates Importance as a Factor in the Campaign to Achieve Racial Integration In the Future Direct Approach Some Requirements No Advertising

By JACK GOULD ();

September 08, 1963,

, Section Arts & Leisure, Page X15, Column , words

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THE medium of television is proving an indispens able force in the Negro's pursuit of human rights. Through the home screen the Washington drama of mass protest was brought to life in virtually every household in the nation, a social phenomenon inconceivable before the age of electronics.

September 08, 1963

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